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Matthew Myerscough

Matthew Myerscough

Civil engineer and fossil hunter based in Cardiff, author of "In Search of Sea Dragons"

Jul 22, 2026

40:17
Mm
40:17
... you know, if you've got multiple bones obviously visible on faces, then it's a really good sign.
40:23
But the other thing I was gonna say is my, my friends Mike and Steve, who are long time fossil hunters, very, very experienced, real experts, they taught me how to, how to split down these big rocks, basically.
40:35
And there's a, there's a kind of a, there's a bit of a knack to it, and I'm not saying I've got it or I'm anywhere near as good as they are, but I'm definitely getting better at it.
40:44
And it's sort of using the corner of a hammer to, to work on the kind of brittle nature of the rock to really kind of, yeah, to, to, to split it down.
40:55
And, and I was...
40:57
I started attacking this boulder, shall we say, and splitting it down.

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